Posted on 04/23/2016 2:04:05 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
Dear College Students,
I remember the stress of college. The anxiety of papers due. The uncertainty of relationships. The concerns about what I was going to do after graduation.
I get it. It’s tough.
I also remember professors who challenged our perceived notions of “right” and “wrong.” I recall being exposed to movies, books and papers that I massively disagreed with. Looking back, I can visualize the heated debates between people with different perspectives. I can almost hear the yelling, the screaming, the passion and the CHALLENGES.
You’re studying and learning during the Industrial Revolution of our generation. It’s exciting. It’s encouraging. It’s liberating. And yet somehow, it’s also leading to your wussification.
Before you get all offended and run to your “safe place,” understand that I pulled that word right out of one of your trusted resources of knowledge – urbandictionary.com.
(Excerpt) Read more at newbostonpost.com ...
Great open letter...
Many completely sorry comments in the comments section...
The future workforce, unless attitudes change, will be minimal....
2 way street. Management has illegal immigration to work with even if they are not direct hires. Throw in Government meddling and you end up with too many complaints/criticizm. Glad I don’t work anymore.
I can imagine an employer seeing the facebook page of one of these special snowflakes and circular filing their resume.
I’m retired myself...
I wasn’t referring to the amount of illegal workers (hopefully Trump can cut that back somewhat)
I was referring to these young college kids of today who haven’t a clue as to what REAL life is and if they can’t handle what happens on a college campus today, they will be utterly useless in the REAL working world...
TANSTAAFL!...................
The comments at the link are astoundingly awful.........................
In their minds, freedom means not having to work or to have careers at all. They think they should be able to do whatever they want, any time they feel like it. Having to hold down a job and earning a living is like slavery to them. They resent having to earn anything because just for the fact that they’re alive, they they think they should be rewarded with other people’s money and for mere appearances sake, they’ll say that nobody else should have to work for it either. However, any hard-earned money still out there may as well be spent on them for the rest of their lives because after all, they grew up believing that the future was all about them. Gee, where would they have gotten that idea?
Yeah...I wonder if they have any idea from where comes all those things they’re given to live on???
There was a time not long ago when college toughened you up for the real world challenges ahead.
The good news is that I work with a lot of people in their 20s and 30s; plus I have three of my own in their 20s and know many of their friends. I haven’t encountered any buttercups among them — they are all hard working, disciplined, and determined to get ahead. I think we have a very noisy extreme minority here that makes the other 99% look bad.
Of course, the loud-mouthed 1% sure have outsize influence these days. Look at all the uproar over who goes to what bathroom.
Bookmark.
Why would any wuss even want a job at his stinking, oppressive, eeeevil greedy capitalist old business anyway?
They’re all planning to be SJWs employed by trendy nonprofits, working to smash capitalism and destroy income inequality.
While ensuring that everyone gets to identify as the animal, vegetable, or mineral of their choice.
Where did you find the comments? How did you link to comments?
They are at the bottom of the story...Just scroll down till you see them...
I remember reading that Ford used to go from college to college each year recruiting the best and brightest engineers our colleges and universities turned out.
On their first day of employment those best and brightest were handed brooms, mops and shovels.
Each one of them had to perform each job in the plant before being allowed to work with the seasoned engineers. And dang few of them made it to the place where they were allowed to design cars.
Today’s snowflakes wouldn’t know what to do with a mop or broom.
Stoke a furnace for ten hours a day?
The thought of that would send them scurrying off looking for a safe space if they didn’t faint on the spot.
It's already here. Part of the vetting process at my company is a social media background check. Candidates who post photos of themselves on Facebook drinking from a beer bong or using obscene language don't even make it to the interview phase. We also do drug testing as well as check for a criminal record.
“I think we have a very noisy extreme minority here that makes the other 99% look bad.”
After retiring I taught a few courses at a top 10 undergraduate business school. The tuition at this private university was $60,000 per year. About 20% of my students were foreigners, primarily Chinese and Indian. The class was required for graduation and only seniors could take the class. Unfortunately my experience suggests the snowflakes are in the minority, not the majority. Some specific observations:
1) Almost 100% of the class had at least one job offer by the middle of the second semester. By the end of the semester all of the students in my classes knew where they were going to work and most were going to blue chip corporations who recruited them aggressively.
2) The foreign students worked much harder than the American students. They were “hungry”. Most of the Americans felt entitled. Very few Americans came to class having read the material. They resented being challenged in class by the instructor.
3) The failure to master the material extended to papers, tests, and exams. As a result the university insisted I grade on a very generous curve resulting in the class average moving from a C to a B+.
4) Of the 52 students I taught, there were only two I would have hired for an entry level position. The Americans in particularly lacked internal motivation, commitment to excellence, and communications skills to be successful in a demanding and highly competitive organization.
5) The tenured faculty and administration coddled these students when they should have been toughening them up for the real world.
6) If my American and Chinese students are typical of future business leaders, the Americans will not be competitive.
You certainly had exposure to a very wide cultural mix. I live and work in Silicon Valley and there is absolutely no doubt the Indians and Chinese work very hard and are strongly represented in the ranks of VC firms, startup companies and established companies here. But “native” Americans (anybody born in the US) are also strong in the same companies.
We have a very skewed sample here in SV because it attracts very bright, hard-working people with strong motivations to win. Everybody works so damn hard to keep up, to innovate and to succeed. I always have to remind myself this is not the normal in most parts of the country.
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